Amos 5:25
Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
In Context
24But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:17They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.
Nehemiah 9:18Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;
Isaiah 43:23You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
Ezekiel 20:16Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.
Hosea 9:9They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.
Acts 7:42But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:22-27
Hypocritical Services Rejected; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Have ye offered unto me… Read the whole commentary →